Distributed File Systems

5/4/98


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Table of Contents

Distributed File Systems

File Service Components

Requirements

File Sharing

File Servers: System Structure

Sun’s Network File System (NFS)

NFS Implementation

NFS Implementation: Issues

NFS Client Caching

Andrew File System (AFS) Design for Scalability

Andrew File System (AFS) Design for Scalability

AFS Implementation

Opening a File in AFS

Cache Coherency

Author: Riccardo Bettati

Email: bettati@cs.tamu.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/bettati